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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Sayda Preview and New Faces

Well, I've put a lot of work into Sayda lately. The maps are done, the townsfolk are done, and one of the two branching paths I'm going to put into this section is done.

Before I make another release, I'll need to make the sewer/dungeons dungeon, and then the palace. I'm glad I'm getting a bit more time to polish this.

The other thing I took care of was to make some new faces (including individual faces for the starting slaves) I think look a bit better than the old ones, using the generator found here:
http://foxrichards.deviantart.com/art/FaceMaker-52755515

They're still temporary, and I'll probably remake a few of these before the next release. Looking at the top choices in the poll for extras, I can see that the faces are fairly far down. Fortunately there's enough cash to do a few extras at this point. So I'm going to do whatever comes out on top at the end of this month (or whenever I have an artist free) and also exercise an executive decision to have one artist do some good handdrawn faces in a single consistent style, at least for the primary heroines and characters. But only once the entire list of heroines have their hot sexy art done, so the artist has references.

Maybe it could be that you can breed any of the slaves, and they'd get a long-running 'pregnant' status applied to them, sort of like the 'poisoned' status. When it wears off, they give birth so it adds to a 'brood' or 'spawn' global variable. When the variable gets high enough, something happens, like the burned out village or chapel gets repopulated. They could erect (heh heh, he said erect) an Overmind statue in the town square or on the altar, and inhabitants could just walk around having a worshipful attitude toward you. That'd give you an excuse to keep breeding the slaves, revisit old areas, and generally add to the immersion of conquering the world. If you want, it could make you more powerful in some way, or else be just for fun. :)

Also, I'd like to compliment you on the fine work you've done so far. Can't wait to see how things progress! :)

I understand what you mean, I just feel it looks unprofessional to have a mismatch of styles in the faces. True, this is a non-profit amateur work, but still. I'd rather try to hold myself up to the standards of a professional and exceed expectations than do the baseline just because I'm an amateur game developer.

Well, save that no professional would be caught dead making a porn game in this day and age outside of Japan. But you get the idea.